What are you Baking the Week of December 1, 2024?

[Mike Nolan]

Probably not much baking going on here this week.

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[cwcdesign]

Bakeraunt - did you see the KABC email about cookies? They have a recipe for Olive Oil-Orange Sugar Cookies and I thought of you

[Italiancook]

The recipe must be only in their e-mail. I just searched their website and couldn't find the recipe.

[cwcdesign]

Here you go Italiancook
https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/olive-oil-orange-sugar-cookies-recipe?trk_msg=DKKC3EUI680KP0TC8C5JNHPQ2C&trk_contact=LID9H3PG2FDJ094VN20RCFNSG4&trk_sid=MNKPMI6484CCHHTD0P388MDUUO&trk_link=3BSF0ATPQC847CD0DJDEUBG0CC&utm_source=ltk_master&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Olive+Oil-Orange+Sugar+Cookies&utm_campaign=ec241201&utm_content=sunday-holidaycookies

[Joan Simpson]

I looked at the orange cookie recipe I've never used cardamom or turmeric that's something I'll have to buy, but they sound good.

[BakerAunt]

Thanks, CWCdesign! I haven't looked at email because we have been traveling. We arrived this afternoon in Florida to spend a week. Because we now have a larger vehicle, having traded in my Subaru Impreza toward a Subaru Outback, there was room for my older bread machine, which is small and not that heavy. I mixed up the dry ingredients for three different bread recipes to bring with me.

As we were eating dinner, I used the bread machine to knead dough for Len's Semolina Rye rolls, which I baked as a loaf. (We ate all the other breads I baked on the trip down.) I could not find buttermilk at the Walmart Express we stopped at to pick up some supplies. All they had was the fatty stuff with 7 g saturated fat per cup. I found 1% fat kefir and used it instead. The oven here is pretty accurate, I just needed to drop the temperature about 5 degrees. The wires on the oven racks are very far spaced. I had to lay the oven thermometer that I brought flat on the rack to keep it from falling through. The kitchen had no potholders, and I struggled using a hand towel to get the loaf out. I may pick up a pair of potholders, as I slightly burned a finger. There are also no racks, and I did not consider the extra oven rack to be clean enough. So, I used two bowls and put the ends of two table knives on each. That made an ok rack.

[BakerAunt]

I just looked at the cookie recipe. It still calls for a stick of butter, so I will not be making it. I'm saving my stick of butter for Pfeffernusse! However, I think that I have another lemon cookie recipe from King Arthur that is oil based.

[cwcdesign]

Enjoy your vacation BA!
That's a bummer. Obviously I didn't read the recipe. By the title I just assumed it had no butter, like an olive oil cake, duh. I mean, that's why you look for olive oil baked good recipes

[Italiancook]

Thanks cw for the recipe link. I'll probably try them in spite of the butter. I stock cardamom but not turmeric. I have saffron, which imparts the same lovely color as turmeric, so I'll assume I can substitute some saffron for the turmeric. I don't know how closely the saffron will mimic turmeric's taste, though. Time will tell whether saffron ruins the cookies.

[RiversideLen]

I am making an apple pie, it is in the oven right now and the house smells devine!

There are some Martha Stewart holiday videos streaming on FreeVee (I think also Amazon Prime as FreeVee will be shut down and the content is moving over to Amazon). One of them concerns pies, one being an apple pie. I took some advice from her. I let the apples macerate and then poured the juice into a saucier. I previously boiled down a cup of apple cider to a little less than a 1/4 cup and added the juices from the apples to it. That was about 3/4 liquid total. Then I added a 1/4 flour to it and whisked it over medium heat until it was smooth and thickened, then added it to the apples. I made a lattice top and brushed it with milk (I think that's a Jenny Can Cook tip, Martha uses an egg wash) and sprinkled it with maple sugar.

I used 2 pounds of Gala apples, which seems to be the right amount for my pie plate and used store bought refrigerated pie dough (the Amazon brand), the kind that you roll out. Seasoned with cinnamon, a touch of fresh grated nutmeg and allspice. Used a half cup of sugar. I left the skins on the apples.

I plan to post another pic when it is done.

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[RiversideLen]

It's out of the oven. I'm glad I baked it on a sheet pan.

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[Joan Simpson]

Len your pie looks great!Yum, I'd love a slice!

[Mike Nolan]

I always use a pan underneath a fruit pie, because it always drips.

[BakerAunt]

Your pie looks delicious, Len! I'm also a fan of leaving the skins on the apples. My apple pie trick is to lightly pre-cook chopped apples mixed with the sugar, lemon juice, spices, and tapioca in a skillet, but that is because I use an oil crust that I blind bake. I put the pie plate on a round pan that I have, with a large hole in the center (like a doughnut) for baking. The pan catches the drips, and it also allows the center to cook at the same rate as the outside of the pie.

We should probably do a pie thread so that we can share our tips and discoveries with each other--and can find them as needed.

[chocomouse]

I have one of those pans, BakerAunt. It was my mother's, and is a great drip pan for a pie. The center part around the hole is raise a little, to lift the pan so there is plenty of room for drips and spills.

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